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BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


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RULE  7.-REV0KIN(;  THE  QUARANTINE  TO  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD  OF 

FOOT-AND-MOUTH  DISEASE  IN  CATTLE,  SHEEP,  OTHER 

RUMINANTS,  AND  SWINE. 


Eff('ctiv(^  on  and  afUr  April  2i,  1909. 


U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 

The  fact  has  been  determined  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  and 
notice  is  hereby  given,  that  the  contagious  and  communicable  disease 
known  as  foot-and-mouth  disease  has  been  eradicated  from  and  does 
not  now  exist  in  the  United  States. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  James  Wilson,  Secretary  of  A(jriculture,  do 
hereby  remove  and  revoke  the  quarantine  placed  upon  certain  areas 
within  the  United  States  by  Rule  6,  Revision  2,  dated  February  24, 
1909,  effective  on  and  after  February  25,  1909,  and  Amendment  2, 
dated  March  22,  1909,  effective  on  and  after  March  26,  1909. 

Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  Order  157,  being  Rule  6,  Revision  2, 
and  all  amendments  thereto  are  hereby  revoked. 

The  effect  of  this  Rule  7  is  to  remove  and  revoke  the  subsisting 
quarantine  for  foot-and-mouth  disease  heretofore  in  efi'ect  in  the  United 
States. 

This  rule  is  effective  on  and  after  April  24,  1909. 

Done   at  Washington   this  nineteenth  day  of 
April,  1909. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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